Author : Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 1991-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027283281
This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987.
Author : Dragoş Iliescu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107110122
This book provides a practical but scientifically grounded step-by-step approach to the adaptation of tests in linguistic and cultural contexts.
Author : Florian Coulmas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521362559
Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements. This wide-ranging collection of essays looks at this phenomenon from a variety of historical and synchronic perspectives, and brings together the work of a number of leading scholars in the field. Several different languages are examined at different stages of their history, including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Kiswahili, German and Hindi. This well-informed book is a significant contribution to the existing literature on language planning, and is the first to use one theoretical concept to deal with the relationship between natural and deliberate language change. It shows that language adaptation is a particular aspect of language change, and thus establishes a link between the social and the historical study of language. It will appeal to graduate students and professionals in linguistics and the social sciences, as well as to practitioners of language planning.
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category :
ISBN : 9780367761615
Author : Arja Nurmi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027289727
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.
Author : Lars Hinrichs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9027253900
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in Creole studies about the 'Creole continuum'. This book will likewise be useful to researchers of computer-mediated communication, the use and development of non-standardized languages, language ecology, and code switching. The central methodological issue in this study is code switching in a written medium, a neglected area of study at the moment since most literature in code switching research is based on spoken data. The three analytical chapters present the data in a critical discussion of established and more recent theoretical approaches to code switching research. The fields of research that will benefit from this book include pragmatics and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, Creole studies, English as a world language, the study of language in computer-mediated communication, and linguistic anthropology.
Author : Huseynaga Rzayev
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1532669844
This exhaustive linguistic dictionary has been designed both for classroom use and for English language professionals. It provides a unique and effective learning source which ‘mirrors’ the continual spring of linguistic knowledge. It suggests a comprehensive, insightful analysis of the highly controversial and complicated issues of present day linguistics. This dictionary provides a pedagogical tool for those teaching various aspects of language to both upper lever undergraduates and graduate level researchers, and exploits the benefits of Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian language scholarship in this field.
Author : Patrick Honeybone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199232814
This critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and sociolinguistic factors. The authors represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective. The book is a valuable resource for phonologists and a stimulating guide for their students.
Author : Monika S. Schmid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241821
From structure to chaos: twenty years of modeling bilingualism / Diane Larsen-Freeman, Monika S. Schmid and Wander Lowie -- Psycholinguistic perspectives on language processing in bilinguals / Judith Kroll and Daan Hermans -- Triggered codeswitching: evidence from picture naming experiments / Mirjam Broersma -- Working memory capacity, inhibitory control, and proficiency in a second language / Susan Gass and Junkyu Lee -- Explanations of associations between l1 and l2 literacy skills / Jan H. Hulstijn -- The acquisition, attrition, and relearning of mission vocabulary / Lynne Hansen -- Second language attrition: theory, research and challenges / Lelia Murtagh -- Contact X time: external factors and variability in l1 attrition / Monika S. Schmid -- The shifting structure of emotion semantics across immigrant generations: effects of the second culture on the first language / Robert W. Schrauf and Julia Sanchez -- Bilingualism, code-switching and aging: a myth of attrition and a tale of collaboration / Michael Clyne -- Language reversion versus general cognitive decline: towards a new taxonomy of language change in elderly bilingual immigrants / Merel Keijzer -- A dynamic model of expert-novice co-adaptation during language learning and acquisition / Paul van Geert, Henderien Steenbeek and Marijn van Dijk -- The dynamics of multilingualism: Levelt's speaking model revisited / Wander Lowie and Marjolijn Verspoor -- Epilogue: twenty years of modeling bilingualism, from chaos to structure and back again / Bert Weltens
Author : C. Georgopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401138184
The thirty-two papers in this collection are offered to Professor S.-Y. Kuroda by his friends, as a ge sture of their deep respect and enduring affection. One of the many ways in which Professor Kuroda has impressed us all is in the breadth of his interests and areas of expertise. He is one of those rare scholars whose work and interests span the whole range of his discipline. He is a figure of such intellectual stature that he has inspired, influenced, and encouraged researchers in an astonishing variety of projects. He continues to do so at an unslackened pace today, just as his own productivity remains vigorous. But mention of Yuki's inspiration and influence is inadequate without mention of his special humorousness, his mischievous wit, his charm and as a friend, has added a unique warmth. Knowing Yuki, and counting him quality to our lives. We who have contributed to this collection have done so in partial acknowledgement of, and gratitude for, this benign and masterful influence. The contributions to the collection reflect the range of Yuki's own interests, and cover a rich variety of approaches to the analysis of natural language. These include papers in philosophy, psychology, computer sciencel artificial intelligence, and linguistics, and, within linguistics, the entire breadth of the field: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and computation. Though diverse in their themes, language areas, and foci, the papers are bound by their authors' common bond to Yuki.
